Plenty to blog about ...

But no time to do it. Work has been overwhelming of late, though that may be falling off in the near future --- we just got word today that a large part of a closely-related section's job has just officially been outsourced to India.

Ever since the Steelers' dominating win over the Broncos, the NFL Network's OnDemand service has released a free highlights package of every Steelers game this year. This has pretty much eaten up all 15 minutes of my TV time of late. I've drifted through the past week in a sort of Steelers-derived glow that my looming possible unemployment and a near-fatal car accident (no one was hurt, but my crappy 1996 Nissan Maxima may have bit the dust) cannot dent. I don't what'll happen if the Steelers actually win one for the thumb --- I'll probably be the happiest scumbag wannabe recruit down at PI come June.

My admitted halfass, biased analysis: the Steelers' passing game takes it to the Seahawks DBs and rookie linebacking corps. Heath Miller has a big game, Ben wins MVP, and the Steelers take it 31-24 in a close one.

On a more serious note, even I wasn't expecting Hamas to crush Fatah so thoroughly. This one was almost as big an upset as Steelers-Indy.

Let me revise what I said before. Fatah will see some infighting, but with words like this about the Palestinian security forces, I'd say the odds on a real Fatah/Hamas shooting war just went up to 1-4.

Hamas swept the election with a pledge to uproot corruption, and it has said that some of the worst abuses were in the security services.

"The leaders of these services became multimillionaires," said Mahmoud Zahar, a senior Hamas leader. "We are going to reform these services. This is our mission."

But Jibril Rajoub, a prominent Fatah leader and a security adviser to Abbas, sounded a very different tone.

"Hamas has no power to meddle with the security forces," Rajoub said.